Patrick Carey is the CTO of CoinTerminal, the industry's only launchpad with no token staking requirements.

CoinTerminal positions itself as a crypto launchpad built for everyone — no staking, no gating, just open access. Anyone with a crypto wallet can join presales for new tokens without needing to lock up collateral or hold platform-specific tokens. Their model is refreshingly straightforward: find promising early-stage projects, contribute via IDOs (initial DEX offerings), and claim tokens once they launch — with the option for refunds if things don’t pan out. They’ve funded 80+ ventures, distributed over $80 million, and already attracted more than 620,000 investors.

What sets CoinTerminal apart is their “no bar, no hidden fees” ethos. There’s no minimum play beyond the $100 opening ticket, and they promise prices up to 10× lower than public listing. Transparency is baked in: winner selections are randomized and verifiable, and they publish transparency reports.

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Alexei Zamyatin is the co-founder of BOB, the gateway to Bitcoin Defi. Bob’s hybrid model aligns with both Bitcoin and Ethereum, fusing the strengths of both networks to put BTC at the heart of DeFi.

Bitcoin has long been the undisputed heavyweight in value, but its role in DeFi has been embarrassingly small—just 0.3% of total value locked (TVL), compared to Ethereum’s ~30%. BOB positions itself as the answer to this imbalance: a secure, hybrid, multichain gateway aiming to capture the roughly $750 billion in “latent capital” locked out of Bitcoin-native DeFi. By providing seamless access to yield and liquidity across chains, while preserving Bitcoin’s ethos and combining it with Ethereum-style programmability, BOB wants to make Bitcoin DeFi not just possible—but massive.

To overcome the trust and fragmentation issues holding Bitcoin back, BOB introduces two key innovations. First, native BTC DeFi powered by Bitcoin staking finality and the BitVM bridge—meaning BTC on BOB is literally just “BTC,” not wrapped or custodial. Second, a revolutionary Bitcoin Intents system and hybrid vaults let users swap between native BTC, wrapped BTC, and DeFi positions—or deploy BTC into strategic yield-bearing vaults—with a single transaction. Together these features unify experience and security, enabling any EVM-compatible chain to integrate BOB and unlock trustless, composable Bitcoin DeFi.

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Frank Hepworth is the CEO and Founder of Yield School. Yield School helps high-net-worth investors build responsible crypto allocations with proper risk management and strategic positioning.

Yieldschool is a specialist educational and consultancy service aimed at serious crypto investors. Its core proposition is guiding clients to the “primary crypto markets”—that stage where crypto assets are first issued, before zigzagging through traditional retail exchanges—enabling users to acquire assets earlier and generally cheaper. Led by founder Frank Hepworth, a regulatory lawyer with experience in guiding crypto exchanges and involvement in launching early crypto ETFs, the operation offers angel-investor-style insights, supported by a full-time research and consulting team with TradFi and crypto backgrounds.

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